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Use OCR confidence to route review, not to certify extracted text
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Use OCR confidence to route review, not to certify extracted text

DEV Community: api·Tim Zinin·3 days ago
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An OCR result can look convincing while changing one digit in an identifier or one character in a name. A confidence score helps prioritize review, but it is not a calibrated probability that a business fact is correct. The consumer needs both the recognized text and enough page evidence to inspect the uncertain part.

Image OCR Text Extractor recognizes printed English and Russian from authorized PNG, JPEG and scanned PDF inputs. It uses Tesseract with installed language models. It does not translate the text, infer a document's meaning or promise handwriting recognition.

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The installed prefill is an owned English image fixture. Request one page and inspect its text, word boxes and confidence fields before importing a mixed archive.…

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